A little story I like is when Leopold Mozart was teaching his son piano (although he was primarily a violin teacher) he would place 5 pebbles on the piano. When Wolfy completed the section they were working on correctly he would take a pebble off. It was only when all five pebbles were gone that he was allowed to go play. Of course the flip side was any mistakes and all the pebbles went back on the piano. This approach works with puzzles, dont learn 4 wrong, set goals to not stop till getting a number right in a row and it reduces the rushing impulse tremendously. 👍
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Jul 27, 2022
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Thank you for the little history lesson, might consider transforming this Idea in to an equivalent in chess. Have a nice day! :-)
blunderbus67 wrote:
A little story I like is when Leopold Mozart was teaching his son piano (although he was primarily a violin teacher) he would place 5 pebbles on the piano. When Wolfy completed the section they were working on correctly he would take a pebble off. It was only when all five pebbles were gone that he was allowed to go play. Of course the flip side was any mistakes and all the pebbles went back on the piano. This approach works with puzzles, dont learn 4 wrong, set goals to not stop till getting a number right in a row and it reduces the rushing impulse tremendously. 👍
Piano and music classes are and have always been torture. My dad's friend was regurarily beaten by his piano professor.
D_Lehn wrote:
I'm really struggling with calculating and not being impatient with my next move, Even tho i remember myself to calculate before i make my next move. But when i mess up the first time, i start sticking with the the old pattern and rather play a 10min game with 5min left.
Do you guys have any ideas on how to drill this into me? (I do not support conditioning via electricity, the costs are too high) I have the same impatience with puzzles, rather lose 10 and solve the next than winning merely 5 cause i spend 2min on the task.
Play games longer than 10 minutes and force yourself to pause at least for 20 seconds before making any single one of your moves, even the obvious ones. The only exception can be the theory in the opening, moves that you have memorised. Other than that, take your time even for recaptures. 10 minute games don't allow you to practice this. Try 30 minute games, or 1 hour long games.
Jul 28, 2022
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#6
When I got away from speed chess and back into classical and rapid play, I would do a lot of puzzles and literally sit on my hands.
It helped with the visualization and also removing trigger happy fingers that I use to have.
Jul 28, 2022
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dude0812 wrote:
blunderbus67 wrote:
A little story I like is when Leopold Mozart was teaching his son piano (although he was primarily a violin teacher) he would place 5 pebbles on the piano. When Wolfy completed the section they were working on correctly he would take a pebble off. It was only when all five pebbles were gone that he was allowed to go play. Of course the flip side was any mistakes and all the pebbles went back on the piano. This approach works with puzzles, dont learn 4 wrong, set goals to not stop till getting a number right in a row and it reduces the rushing impulse tremendously. 👍
Piano and music classes are and have always been torture. My dad's friend was regurarily beaten by his piano professor.
Play 15|10 and use all your time before move 30, finishing on increment only.
Sit on your hands.
I'm really struggling with calculating and not being impatient with my next move, Even tho i remember myself to calculate before i make my next move. But when i mess up the first time, i start sticking with the the old pattern and rather play a 10min game with 5min left.
Do you guys have any ideas on how to drill this into me? (I do not support conditioning via electricity, the costs are too high) I have the same impatience with puzzles, rather lose 10 and solve the next than winning merely 5 cause i spend 2min on the task.